The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-04


brag sometimes how you have 0ught your
way in the world, but think there have
been helpful influences that you have never
fully Acknowledged Has there not been
some influence in your early or present home
that the world cannot sect Docs there not
reach to you from among the New England
hills on from Western prairie, or from
Southern plantation, or from English, or
Scottish, or Irish home a cord of influence
that has kept you right when you would
have gone astray, and which, after you had
made crooked track recalled youl The
rope may be as long as thirty years, or five
hundred miles long or three thopsand miles
long, but hands that went out of mortal
sight long ago still hold the rope. You want
a very swift horse, and you need to rowel
him with sharpest spurs, and to
neck, and TO give shout to the racer, if you
are going to ride out of reach of your
mothers prayers. Why, a ship crossing the
Atlantic in six days can't sail away from
that A sailor finds them on the lookout as
he takes his place, and finds them on the
mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle
"a rope in the tempest, and finds them swing
ing ON the hammock when he turns in.
Why not be frank and acknowledge 1.-THE
most of us would long ago have been dashed
to pieces had not gracious and loving hands
steadily, and lovingly and nightly held the
rope.
But there must come a time when we
shall find out who these Damascenes were
who lowered Paul in the bt.sKet, and greet
them and all those who have rendered TO
God and the world unrecognized and unre
corded services. That is going TO be one of
the glad excitements of heaven, the hunting
up and picking out of those who did great
good on earth and got no credit for it.
Ilere the church has been going on nineteen
centuries, and yet the world has not recog
nized the services of the people i'll that
Damascus balcony. Charles q. Finney said
to a dying Christian: Give my love to st.
Paul when you meet him." When you and
/ meet him, as we will, | shall ask him TO
introduce me to those people who got him
out Of the Damascene peril.
We 60 into long sermons to prove that
we will be able to recognize people in
heave:., when there is one reason we fail to
present, and that is better than all-Iod
will introduce us. We shall have them all
pointed out. You would not be guilty of
the impoliteness of having friends in your
parlor not introduced, and celestial polite
ness will demand that we be made &C
quainted with all the heavenly household.
What rehearsal of old times and recital of
stirring remiIiscencesl II others fail 10
give introduction, God will take us through,
and before our first twenty-four hours in
heaven--if it were calculated by earthly
time -pieces-have passed, we shall meet and
talk with more heavenly celebrities than in
our entire mortal state we met with earthly
celebrities Many who made great noise of
usefulness will sit on the last seat by the
front door of the heavenly temple, while
right up within arms reach of the heavenly
throne will be many who, though they
could not preach themselves or do great ex-
ploits for God, nevertheless held the rope.
Come, let us 60 right up and accost those
on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely
they must have killed in battle a million
men, Surely, they must have been buried
with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge
and all the towers of all the cities tolling
the national grief. Who art thou, mighty
one of heavenl "I lived by choice the un-
married daughter In al humble home that
l might take care of my parents in their
old age, and | endured without complaints
all their querulousness and administered to
all their wants for twenty years"
Let us pass ON round the circle of thrones
Who art thou mighty one of heaveni 81
was for thirty years a Christian invalid
and suffered all the while, occasionally
writing a note of sympathy for those worse
off than |, and was general coniidant of all
those who had trouble, and once In "A while
was strong enough TO make garment for
that poor family in tho back lane" Pass
on 10 dIlOtiicT JtlTOIlC. w nO JftOu,
mighty one of heaven9 81 was the mother
who reared a whole family of children for
God, and they are out in the world, Chris
tan merchants, Christian mechanics, Chris
tian wives, and have had my full reward
of all my toll" Let us pass on in the circle
of thrones 81 had a Sabbath school class,
and they were always on my heart and they
all entered the kingdom Of God, and | am
waiting for their arrival"
V,,t yln art ba rniey of
heaven on this other thronel 'In time of
bitter persecution / owned a house in Da-
mascus, a house on the wall. A man who
preached Christ was bounded from street to
Street, and hid him from the assassins, and
when found them breaking in my house
and could no longer keep him safely | ad-
vised him to flee for his life. and a basket
was let down over the wall with the NAL
treated man in IL, and was one who helped
hold the rope" And said: "Is that allf'
And he eanswered: THAT is alln And while
| was lost in amazement ! heard strong
voice that sounded as though 1t might once
have been hoarse from many exposures, and
triumphant as though ID might have be
lOnged TO one of the martyrs, and it said:
''Not many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God hath chosen the weak things
Of the world to confound the things which
are mighty, and base things of the world
and things which are despised hath God
chosen, yea, and things which are not to
bring 10 naught things which are that no
flesh should glory in His presence" And
looked TO see from whence the voice came,
and 10! it was the very one who had said:
'Through a window In a basket was | let
down by the WALL
Henceforth think of nothing as insignifi-
cant. A little thing may decide your all.
A Cunarder put out from England for New
York. IL was well equipped, but in put
ting up stove In tho pilot box a nail was
driven too near the compass You know
how that nail would affect the compass.
The ships officer, deceived by that dis
tracted compass, put tho ship two hundred
miles Off her right course, and suddenly the
man on the lookout cried: LAND hO!" and
the ship was halted within a few yards OF her
demolition on Nantucket shoals A six
penny nail came near wrscking Cunarder.
Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word puts his hand behind his
head and tits back his chair 20 think,
and the ceiling falls and crushes the table
and would have crushed him. A minister
in Jamaica at night by tho light Of an
insect, called the candle-hy, is kept from
stepping over n precipice hundred feet +.
w. Robertson, the celebrated English
clergyman, said that he entered the min
istry from train OF circumstances started
by the barking of dog. Had the wind
blown one way on a certain day, the
Spanish Inquisition would have been estab-
lished in England; but ii blew the other
way, and that dropped the accursed insti-
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